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                        <span class="fourteenpt">C. H. Wheeler Scrapbook, 1935-1937</span>
                        <div class="thirteenpttitle">1 vol. (0.5 linear ft.) <div>Collection number:
                                MS 598 bd</div></div>
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                        <div class="abstract">A resident of Haydenville, Mass., during the 1930s, C.
                            H. Wheeler was evidently captivated with the profound political changes
                            sweeping the nation during the years of the Great
                            Depression.<br/><br/>Containing hundreds of political cartoons clipped
                            from local newspapers and national media, C. H. Wheeler's scrapbook
                            documents media reactions to the Great Depression and New Deal, the
                            presidential election of 1936, Alf Landon and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and
                            national and international political currents.</div>
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                        <p>A resident of Haydenville, Mass., during the 1930s, C. H. Wheeler was
                            evidently captivated with the profound political changes sweeping the
                            nation during the years of the Great Depression.</p>
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                        <p>Containing hundreds of political cartoons clipped from local newspapers
                            and national media, this scrapbook documents media reactions to the
                            Great Depression and New Deal, the presidential election of 1936, Alf
                            Landon and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Republican efforts to undermine relief
                            legislation, and national and international political currents. The
                            compiler pasted in a small number of news articles, magazine covers, and
                            the series of famously errant straw polls run by the <span
                                class="italic">Literary Digest</span> that predicted a Landon
                            landslide over Roosevelt in 1936.</p>
                        <p>Although the compiler's identity is uncertain, two magazine covers tipped
                            into the scrapbook bear an address label for C. H. Wheeler of
                            Haydenville, Mass. The scrapbook pages are highly acidic, brittle, and
                            should be handled with care.</p>
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                    <p><span class="italic">Cite as</span>: C. H. Wheeler Scrapbook (MS 598 bd).
                        Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library,
                        University of Massachusetts Amherst.</p>
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                    <p>Gift of Forbes Library, March 2009.</p>
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                    <p>Processed by Dex Haven, March 2009.</p>
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                                        ><ul><li>Depressions--1929.</li><li>Landon, Alfred M.
                                        (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987.</li><li>Massachusetts--Politics
                                        and government--1933-1945.</li><li>New Deal,
                                        1933-1939.</li><li>Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano),
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                                >Contributors</div><div class="controlaccess"><ul><li>Wheeler, C.
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